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Measure twice and screw it up anyway

Making a drawer front 41" x 3" x 1" and absent mindedly cut it 3" too short,,,,rats. The fix is surprisingly easy, I just glued the offcut back on. Endgrain gluing is surprisingly strong and invisible. I may add something to reinforce it but it really is not needed.

Sometimes I enjoy making corrections. It counteracts my incompetence with a wiff of competence.

Making a drawer front 41" x 3" x 1" and absent mindedly cut it 3" too short,,,,rats. The fix is surprisingly easy, I just glued the offcut back on. Endgrain gluing is surprisingly strong and invisible. I may add something to reinforce it but it really is not needed.

Sometimes I enjoy making corrections. It counteracts my incompetence with a wiff of competence.

Measuring errors is one of my reasons for switching from using tape measures and rulers to using a story stick. No addition or marking the half inch on the wrong side of the inch.

Those of us with a touch of dyslexia can have real problems with measuring devices.

jtk

Last edited by Jim Koepke; 05-14-2019 at 6:53 PM.
Reason: dyslexia

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

[QUOTE=Jim Koepke;2926967]Measuring errors is one of my reasons for switching from using tape measures and rulers to using a story stick. No addition or marking the half inch on the wrong side of the inch.

Those of us with a touch of dyslexia can have real problems with measuring devices.